It is mentioned that authorities from the Chinese province of Hainan, recently visited the Mexican Caribbean resort of Cancun to meet with local authorities. The top topic was to discuss the feasibility of commencing directs flights by Hainan Airlines, during the third quarter of 2013, between Beijing and Cancun. No further details were given, but it is mentioned in the article, that HU would be using 787-8s to run the proposed new service.

Lots of talking in the past, in regards to flights from China to Mexico by a Chinese carrier. Nothing has materialized just yet. At his time, Aeromexico remains the only airline providing direct links between the two countries ( MEX-PVG v v ).

BTW, the only logical stopping point would either be in Canada or the US, and I doubt any of that will happen. I'm not sure a flight could take off from MEX and fly nonstop to PEK, giving altitude at MEX.

Quoting 777222LR (Reply 2):LOL, perhaps with almost FULL government subsidy....

There was a fascinating article in the last Economist about countries and cities trying to court the Chinese tourist markets. Apparently, Chinese tourists spend a ton more money than most others, and are becoming a very, VERY important demographic in the travel business. Not saying there would be a full government subsidy, of course, but Cancun trying hard to attract Chinese tourists would not be a crazy thing.

Quoting g500 (Reply 4):I don't know about Cancun, might be better to code-share it through MEX

My guess is the Chinese would want to fly nonstop to their destination and spend as little time as possible making connections after a ULH flight in a strange and foreign nation that is suseptible to crime.

Quoting PA110 (Reply 12):If true, this route would be even more poorly conceived than MH's KUL-LAX-MEX route. It's amazing that in this day in age, there are airlines who completely lose their minds on absurd routes.

Well, believe it or not, MH's fifth freedom sectors LAX-MEX-LAX, were averaging 90 PLF, when traffic rights were removed from the airline by the Mexivan government, back in 1998.

Yes, as absurd as it may sound to you !!!

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